DEP Spokesman Says Recent Blizzard Helped Water Supply
By Eric Goodma
     A rainy autumn and the large snow storm three weeks ago provided New York City with an abundant supply of clean and usable water, according to First Deputy Commissioner David Tweedy of the City Department of Environmental Protection. Tweedy was on hand at the Friends United Block Association meeting
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Sen. Schumer Urges Emergency Aid To Flooded Guyana
     New York’s senior U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer has urged that the United States Agency for International Development do everything possible to ensure that essential emergency relief items are receive by victims of the Guyana flooding disaster immediately.
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A.G. Spitzer Calls N.Y. Voting System “An Embarrassment”
By Marc Humbert AP Political Writer
     The failure of the state legislature to agree on an overhaul of New York’s voting system — from new machines to computerized registration lists — is “an embarrassment” that could cost the state $219 million in federal funds, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Monday.
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New York Int’l. Auto Show Opens March 25
     The New York International Automobile Show, the largest publicly attended auto show in the country, which is owned and operated by the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA), will be open to the public on Friday, March 25 through Sunday, April 3.
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